Tech Talk

Education first: Bill Gates will headline SXSWedu conference in Austin

By Arden Ward

01.08.13 | 3:52 pm

On Tuesday afternoon, SXSW announced that Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will make his way to Austin as a keynote speaker at this year ...

Shelby's Social Diary

KIPP founders honored with Holocaust Museum's Guardian of the Human Spirit Award

By Shelby Hodge

11.09.11 | 11:00 am

Lifelong commitments to preparing lower-income students for college and dedication to teaching tolerence and respect in schools earned Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) founders Mike Feinberg and D ...

More Effective Teachers?

What Bill & Melinda Gates' $1.5 million gift to HISD really means

By Jennifer Patterson

11.27.10 | 5:02 am

Recently, Houston Independent School District board trustess voted to accept two donations for a combined sum of almost $3 million, including a $1,485,000 contribution from the Bill and Melinda Gat ...

Panto Pinocchio

Stages Repertory Theatre

11.23.10 - 01.09.11

Stages puts a modern-day spin on Carlo Collodi’s classic tale, with a twist of British pantomine. Computer mogul Gill Bates thinks his life is complete when he finally succeeds in building a

Are You Influential?

Houston Twitterentials: My search for the real local stars of the 140-character world

By Matthew Williams

08.17.10 | 2:32 pm

I want to talk about the most influential people in Houston on Twitter because while I appreciate and fully endorse its benefits, I'm simply not a strapping Twitter stud with adoring followers ...

bossy philanthropy

Does Gates & Buffett's billionaires' Giving Pledge put pressure on Dan Duncan's family?

By Steven Thomson

06.17.10 | 11:56 am

In a landmark moment for philanthropy, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are advocating that all billionaires commit to giving at least half of their wealth to charitable groups within their lifetimes ...

shooting blanks

50 years after the pill, is America ready for male birth control?

By Sarah Rufca

05.13.10 | 4:19 pm

It may take two to tango, but the birth control market has been a one-sided endeavor for the past 50 years. If a woman wants to prevent pregnancy, she has about a dozen options to choose from, from ...

Ideas barreling toward Houston

Are you ready for TED's offspring?

By Nancy Wozny

04.28.10 | 12:59 am

Attention idea lovers, the TEDx program from TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) as in Ideas Worth Spreading, is coming to Houston. TEDx Houston 2010 goes down June 12 at the University of ...

Wi it matters

"Nerd alert" in Austin: SXSW Interactive searches for the Web's next big thing

By Jason McElweenie

03.12.10 | 4:37 pm

Greetings from Austin! Over the next few days, I’m going to take you deep into what some would call ‘The Woodstock of Interactive Media’ – SXSW Interactive. I&rsquo ...

The Gilded Age

The billionaire next door: Nine Houstonians rank among the world's richest

By Sarah Rufca

03.11.10 | 12:30 pm

As Warren Buffett says, "When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble." The financial upheaval has made a mess of the global economy over the last couple of years, bu ...